Palestinian medics report that ambulances continue to be targeted by Israeli tank shells and airstrikes, with ambulances hit in both Gaza City and Beit Hanoun. The death toll for Friday has reached a total of 45, including several medics.

1. Mohammad Matar al-'Abadla, 32, was killed when an
Israeli missile was fired at an ambulance trying to retrieve dead and
wounded people from Khuza'a, in Khan Younis. The medics reported that
there had been coordination between the Red Cross and Israel to allow
the medics to enter, but despite the coordination, Israeli forces fired a
missile at them.

2. Yosra Salem Hasan al-Breem, 65, was killed when an Israeli missile struck her home in Bani Sohbila, near Khan Younis.

Several Palestinians were injured, two seriously, when the Israeli
airforce targeted a car in Gaza. They were taken to Shifa hospital.

On Friday late afternoon, the bodies of two brothers killed in Khan
Younis arrived at the Gaza European Hospital. They were identified as:
13. Mohammad Kamel an-Naqa, 34, Khan Younis.
14. Kamaal Kamel an-Naqa, 35, Khan Younis.
15. Hamed al-Bora'ey, a medic, and two other medics were injured, when
Israeli forces targeted an ambulance in Beit Hanoun, in northern Gaza.

16. The body of Mohammad Issa Khaled Hajji, 24, was identified in the
morgue of Shifa Hospital. His body has been in the morgue for three
days, but was not able to be identified.

17. Hasan Hussein al-Howwari died in the intensive care unit at the Shifa hospital on Friday afternoon.

18. Hosam Rabhi, a Palestinian medical specialist, died of wounds
sustained on July 12th in an Israeli attack. He had been taken to a
hospital in Jordan for treatment, where he was pronounced dead on Friday
afternoon.

updated from:

The Palestinian Ministry of Health has reported that an Israeli army
sniper shot and killed a Palestinian child, age 5, in the neighborhood
of Shuja’eyya, in Gaza City. Four more Palestinians were killed in Gaza’s Central District.

Israel has rejected a Gaza ceasefire proposal recently outlined by US Secretary of State John Kerry, according to Israeli public television. However, Haaretz now reports that a 12-hour "humanitarian" ceasefire has been negotiated.

"The security cabinet has unanimously rejected the ceasefire proposal of
Kerry, as it stands," Channel 1 said, according to Ma'an News Agency.
It was added that ministers have left it open to discussion.

Kerry met with Egypt's foreign minister and UN chief Ban Ki-moon, today,
with the aim of securing a ceasefire which would end the Israeli that
has now entered its 18th day, and has killed more than 800 Palestinians
(names currently unconfirmed) and 38 Israelis, 35 of whom were soldiers.

The Kerry proposal reportedly included an initial truce that would be
followed by negotiations on a final deal by delegations from all the
parties, according to Ma'an.

PM Netanyahu's government demanded that the army be allowed to continue
destroying tunnels used by the Palestinian resistance to carry out
operations inside Israel.

Hamas previously rejected the initial proposal, demanding a full settlement before it stopped shooting. However, mediation efforts have reportedly gained momentum over recent days.

Haaretz, who recently reported Israeli cabinet and Likud members as
vehemently opposing a cease-fire, states that all signs indicate
Netanyahu is looking for a truce and has agreed to a 12-hour
humanitarian ceasefire, according to Kerry.

Palestinian Foreign Minister Ryad al-Maliki (2nd R) looks on prior to the start of an emergency session of the UN Human Rights Council on July 23, 2014 at the United Nations Offices in Geneva A French lawyer said Friday he had lodged a complaint at the International Criminal Court on behalf of the Palestinian justice minister accusing the Israeli army of "war crimes."

More than 800 Palestinians have been killed in Israel's offensive in Gaza, launched on July 8 in response to Hamas militants firing rockets into Israel.

The complaint targets "war crimes committed by the Israeli army in June and July 2014 in Palestine" in the context of the operation known as Protective Edge, Gilles Devers told reporters.

"Israel, the occupying power, is carrying out a military operation which in principle and form violates the basis of international law," he said.

"Every day new crimes are committed and over 80 percent of the victims are civilians. Children, women, hospitals, UN schools ... the Israeli soldiers respect nothing.

"This is a military attack against the Palestinian population."

The Israeli offensive has left more than 5,200 Palestinians injured, according to emergency services in Gaza. Some 33 Israeli soldiers and three civilians have also died.

The Palestinian Authority, which has non-member observer state status at the United Nations, has not yet signed up to the Hague-based ICC, due to what Devers said were "political" quarrels over the Palestinians' status.

But according to Devers, the complaint is still valid.

The UN Human Rights Council is launching a probe into Israel's offensive in Gaza, with rights chief Navi Pillay saying Israel's military actions could amount to war crimes.

The Israeli military said in a statement on Friday that it had killed 240 "militants" in the Gaza Strip since it began a ground offensive on the Gaza Strip last week.

More than 830 Palestinians have been killed in the assault according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza, meaning that according to the army's numbers less than 30 percent of those killed have been combatants.

The new figures are quite close to those of Palestinian rights groups inside Gaza, who have claimed that around 80 percent of the dead have been civilians.

The Israeli military has repeatedly emphasized that it has done its utmost to avoid civilian casualties, but the widespread killing of civilians -- including the shelling of four UN-designated shelters in the last three days -- has raised alarm among international watchdogs.

Palestinian militants, meanwhile, have killed 33 Israeli soldiers since the ground assault began. Rocket fire into Israel has killed three civilians, one of whom was volunteering with the military near the border and another who was a foreign agricultural worker.

More than 90 percent of those killed by Palestinian militant groups, primarily Hamas, have been soldiers.

Israel's cabinet has unanimously rejected a US-backed proposal for a week-long "humanitarian pause" in the offensive on Gaza after 18 days of fighting that has claimed more than 800 Palestinian lives.Binyamin Netanyhau and his ministers reached their decision on a day when Gaza's death toll reached 822 and five more Palestinians were killed in protests that spread to the West Bank. Hamas had already signalled its opposition to the terms of the US plan, which it deemed too favourable to Israel.The Israeli decision, reported by Israel's Channel 2 TV, left the US secretary of state, John Kerry, struggling to find a way to continue his efforts to halt the bloodshed.Unrwa, the UN refugee agency, said 150,000 people were now seeking shelter.Militants again fired rockets out of Gaza, triggering sirens across southern and central Israel, including at the country's main airport. No injuries were reported, with the Iron Dome interceptor system knocking out many of the missiles.Kerry spent the day holding talks and working the phones in Cairo in an atmosphere of what officials described as "cautious optimism" about the outcome of efforts to secure a truce.Parallel contacts, between Turkey and the Hamas leader, Khaled Mishal, were also taking place in Doha, the capital of Qatar. Mishal has insisted on an end to the siege of Gaza; Israel on an end to cross-border attacks. The gap between the two sides is wide.Israel army radio reported that Netanyahu's ministers had been divided over the wisdom of accepting Kerry's proposal, which was being supported by the UN secretary-general, Ban Ki-moon. Hawkish ministers were said to favour widening the ground operation in Gaza and warning against any gain for Hamas. Under the US plan, Israeli troops could stay behind after a ceasefire to continue destroying cross-border tunnels. The week-long truce would be followed by talks on more permanent arrangements, under Egyptian supervision.General Sami Turgeman, head of Israel's southern command, said his forces needed more time to destroy the tunnels in Gaza. Hinting at the growing pressure for a ceasefire, he told reporters: "We know that there are other timetables that can affect us, and we will use all the time that we have at our disposal."Turgeman said Hamas fighters were in poor shape and were finding it harder to launch rockets into Israel.The West Bank fatalities on Friday followed a big demonstration on Thursday night at the Qalandiya checkpoint between Jerusalem and Ramallah, in which 10,000 demonstrators marched in solidarity with Gaza.Two men were shot dead by Israeli troops and about 250 people injured, mostly from gunshots."Ambulances were coming every minute," said a doctor in the hospital's emergency department. "We have seen this before but not since the intifada," he said, referring to the last Palestinian uprising.Israel announced that an army reservist had been killed in Gaza, bringing to 34 the number of soldiers lost since its ground offensive began.Gaza officials said Israeli strikes killed 33 Palestinians on Friday, including the head of media operations for Hamas and his son.The Israeli military said that one of its soldiers who had been missing since a battle in Shujai'iya on Sunday was dead."Oron Shaul is defined as 'a soldier killed in action whose burial site is unknown'," said an Israel Defence Forces statement. The soldier was in an armoured vehicle ambushed by Palestinians.The bodies of six other infantrymen were recovered but Shaul's fate had been unclear. If Hamas is holding Shaul's body, it may give it leverage in bargaining for the release of prisoners which it is demanding as part of a ceasefire deal.Unwra issued a strongly-worded statement about the Israeli military when a team including an international weapons expert visited the school at Beit Hanoun which came under attack on Thursday, causing at least 15 deaths and 200 injuries."The aim of the visit to the site was to survey the scene in the aftermath of the incident," Unwra said."The Israeli army had been notified in advance about the composition of the team, the time and purpose of the visit. The mission had to be cut short and the team was forced to leave the area after gunfire around the school. We again underline our call for an immediate and comprehensive investigation."Violence in the Palestinian territories was echoed in neighbouring Jordan, where around 2,000 people demonstrated in Amman, after Friday prayers, chanting: "We sacrifice our blood and souls for you, Gaza" and "Bomb and destroy Tel Aviv". Protests were held in the northern cities of Zarqa and Irbid as well as in the south, in Karak.In Iran hundreds of thousands of people took part in nationwide rallies in solidarity with Palestinians. Images showed demonstrators holding banners, such as one reading "Stop killing babies in Gaza". A group of demonstrators set fire to Israeli flags and carried puppets of Israeli and American officials.In Lebanon, Hassan Nasrallah, the secretary general of Hezbollah, said: "This is the most critical period in the region's history since the rape of Palestine."

Iranians rallied nationwide on Friday in a show of support for Palestinians as archfoe Israel pursued a deadly campaign against the Gaza Strip that has killed more than 800 so far, the vast majority civilians.

Demonstrations were held in Tehran and more than 700 towns and cities across the country on the last day of prayer and rest of the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan, state television reported.

In the capital, footage showed demonstrators, carrying placards proclaiming "Death to Israel" and "Death to America", converging from nine different points on Tehran University in the city center.

Iran holds Quds Day (Jerusalem Day) rallies in support of the Palestinians every year on the last Friday of Ramadan, but this year's demonstrations came on the 18th day of Israel's deadly campaign against rocket-firing militants in Gaza.

More than 800 Palestinian civilians have been killed in the assault on Gaza and the Islamist Hamas movement that dominates it and has long been supported by Iran.

Rockets and mortar rounds fired into Israel have killed three civilians -- two Israelis and a Thai farm worker -- and fighting in and around Gaza has killed 32 Israeli soldiers.

"The Islamic world must in unison declare this day one of anger, hatred, unity and resistance against Israel," President Hassan Rouhani said at the Tehran demonstration.

Rouhani, who has overseen a fledgling rapprochement with the West condemned, "those who stay silent in the face of the Zionist regime's crimes."

"The world demands an end to the Gaza blockade, opening the Rafah crossing and halting attacks on Gaza so its people can live normally," he said.

He was referring to the demands of Hamas for any truce with Israel to end the deadly violence. The Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt is the territory's only one not controlled by Israel.

General Hossein Salami, second in command of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards, struck a defiant tone in a speech broadcast on state television.

'Continue the struggle'

"Now no place in the occupied territories is safe for the Zionists. The missiles of Palestinian fighters have a range well beyond what the Zionists believe," he said.

"We will continue house by house and avenge the blood of martyrs shed in Palestine."

Salami's sentiments were echoed by demonstrators.

"My message to the Palestinians is this: continue the struggle until your last drop of blood. Islamic countries, especially Iran, are behind you to save you," a young protester called Hassan told AFP.

On Thursday, the speaker of Iran's parliament, Ali Larijani, told state television's Arabic service that Tehran had provided Hamas with the technology it has used to rain down rockets on Israel.

"Today, the fighters in Gaza have good capabilities and can meet their own needs for weapons," he said.

"But once upon a time, they needed the arms manufacture know-how and we gave it to them."

Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Wednesday called on the Palestinians to keep fighting Israel and to expand their resistance from Gaza to the occupied West Bank.

During the last major conflict in and around Gaza in November 2012, Larijani said Iran was "proud" to have provided "both financial and military support" to Hamas.

Israel accused Iran of supplying Gaza militants with its Fajr-5 missile, which has a range of 75 kilometers (45 miles), for use during that conflict.

But the commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, General Mohammad Ali Jafari, said at the time it was not the missiles that had been supplied but their technology.

watch this child... 45 minutes before Israeli airstrike killed him

Nour al-Islam Abu Hweishel, 12, Nusseirat, killed July 22th, he said: "a message to Arabs. We the people in Gaza are alright. How are you? We're alright while in this war. What about you?! Our martyrs are under piles of destroyed buildings, and our children are living in tents, asking about you, where are you? we're alright in Gaza. The sea is behind us, and our enemy is in front of us, but we are still fighting, we have what we need of food, weapons, and promises of peace. we thank you for your support. our souls, wounds, sky, homes, faces, blood, eyes, and coffins are protecting us from your promises"(it is basically a complaint against how Arabs are giving the people of Gaza no support and just empty promises... ﻿)